Ten years ago, on this day, October 31st 2008, the legendary persona known as Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper. In other words, Bitcoin turns ten today.

First of all, happy birthday! For a ten year old, you look awfully precocious, Bitcoin! Also, you still seem to be the most popular guy in the neighborhood, although other kids, STEEM included, are catching up fast.

Anyways, I was just thinking...

Without Bitcoin, there wouldn't be any STEEM.

And without STEEM, we will still flock around Facebook, like a bunch of Neanderthalians around fire, desperate to get a little bit of social interaction and giving away, in the process, our privacy, our behavioral corpus, our buying habits and a lot of other data, which, in turn, would make a bunch of other mischievous Neanderthalians richer.

For me, the gap between our current monetary system and what cryptocurrencies are offering is similar with the gap between Neanderthal civilization and current, modern cultures. And yet, many of us are still choosing to live as Neanderthalians, by lack of knowledge or fear of change.

In the grand scheme of things, ten year is nothing.

And yet, the disruption created in these ten years will rip apart our current world and send down ripples to every layer of our lives. We're still at the most superficial level of this disruption, which is trading, but I think there is a lot more to come.

Ten years ago, we were all hit by the Lehman Brothers event, without any chance of fighting back and even without thinking there is a way to fight back anyway.

Now, if another Lehman Brothers event will hit, at least some of us will know what to do.

Steem on!

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Previous posts in the challenge:

• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day One: All Ultramarathons Start With Just One Small Step
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Two: How Much Garbage Do You Carry With You?
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Three: Pushing Things To Happen Versus Letting Them Happen "Through" You
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Four: The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly On The Plain
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Five: Books, Coffee And The Smell Of A Gentle Autumn
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Six: Revisiting The Harry Potter Trees In Turia
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Seven: Sand Castles
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Eight: Be Careful Of New Beginnings
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Nine: Tuesday's Free Writing
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Ten: The Power And Toxicity Of Lists
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Eleven: Unblocking Writer's Block - A Primer
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Twelve: Riding The Wave Of Change
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Thirteen: When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Nail
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Fourteen: Sunday Stillness
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Fifteen: The Next Major Social Disruption Will Be Technological
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Sixteen: The Difference Between Sound And Light

Steem on!

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I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.

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